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Indie Dev Simulator
In this game, you're playing as game developer and encounter typical problems like eating and sleeping. You need to correctly allocate your time for human needs, hobbies and work, to live another day as indie developer.
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-28.
“It's a very interesting game with a beautiful art style, and has a nice game loop. A few small changes would make the existing early access build more managable for me. Especially when playing casually as the game progresses, some of the changes mentioned below would imrpove my…”
— a player, Steam review · 4 hrs played“This game is really laid back and fun to just relax from work. That being said their really isn't much to the game, it is a very basic game.”
— a player, Steam review · 4 hrs played“was a cool game untill the last info in the games feed is about him starting a new game while this one isnt near finished makes me wish i could get a refund”
— a player, Steam review · 6 hrs playedAchievement stats
Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-09-28.
Latest official news
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Finally I can upload a new update :heart_me: • increasing energy while eating food • negative effects on the abuse of certain types of food https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images
Next update progress
Most recently, I wrote that all health problems were decided, but I unexpectedly got into the hospital but it is not much delayed development. What is already done: • increase energy when eating food
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-09-28.
| Genres | Indie, Simulation, Strategy |
| Player tags | Simulation · Strategy · Indie (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Steam Achievements · Steam Cloud · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English, Russian, Portuguese - Brazil, German, Spanish - Spain, Spanish - Latin America |
| Achievements | 9 |
| Official site | https://www.dev-me.net/ |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: OS *: Windows XP, Vista, 7, 8, or 10 Processor: 2,5 GHz+ Memory: 1024 MB RAM Graphics: 512MB Storage: 200 MB available space